Thursday, December 29, 2016

Be it known that Fecesbook and the Zuckerbitches are at it again

Now I can't even sign on until I run their 'anti-virus' software. No thank you, I don't want whatever the hell your crap will leave behind.

Just saw some pictures of a bunch of celebritutes in their finest designer attire; makes me wish for celebrities who at least have the fashion sense of those in the 50's and 60's.

He gets this part right:The way we demonize comedians for use of language or terminology is unspeakable. Because that's exactly what comedians should be doing,
offending and upsetting people, and being offensive. Comedy is there,
like art, to make people uncomfortable, and challenge their views, and
hopefully have a spirited yet civil argument. If you're a comedian whose
bread and butter seems to be language, situations, and jokes that I
find racist and offensive, I won't buy tickets to your show or watch you
on TV. I will not support you. If people ask me what I think, I will
say you suck, and that I think you are racist and offensive. But I'm not
going to try to put you out of work. I'm not going to start a boycott,
or a hashtag, looking to get you driven out of the business.The utter contempt with which privileged Eastern liberals such as
myself discuss red-state, gun-country, working-class America as
ridiculous and morons and rubes is largely responsible for the upswell
of rage and contempt and desire to pull down the temple that we're
seeing now.I've spent a lot of time in gun-country, God-fearing America. There
are a hell of a lot of nice people out there, who are doing what
everyone else in this world is trying to do: the best they can to get
by, and take care of themselves and the people they love. When we deny
them their basic humanity and legitimacy of their views, however
different they may be than ours, when we mock them at every turn, and
treat them with contempt, we do no one any good. Nothing nauseates me
more than preaching to the converted. The self-congratulatory tone of
the privileged left—just repeating and repeating and repeating the
outrages of the opposition—this does not win hearts and minds. It
doesn't change anyone's opinions. It only solidifies them, and makes
things worse for all of us. We should be breaking bread with each other,
and finding common ground whenever possible. I fear that is not at all
what we've done.
And then says this:...If you look around the world (in the Philippines, in England), the rise
of nationalism, the fear of the Other. When people are afraid and feel
that their government has failed them they do things that seem
completely mad and unreasonable to those of who are perhaps under less
pressure. As unhappy and surprised as I am with the outcome, I'm
empathetic to the forces that push people towards what I see as an
ultimately self-destructive act. Berlusconi, Putin, Duterte, the world
is filled with bad choices, made in pressured times.
'the fear of the Other'. I think there's little of that, and lots of pissed-off at the people he mentions in the first part.

Also, voting for Clinton, that's not a 'ultimately self-destructive act'?

A: Yes, Obama & Co. worked hard to screw Israel. Because Obama doesn't like Jews, Netenyahu wouldn't kiss his ass, and because- for God knows what reason- they like enabling a bunch of bloody-handed savages.
B: Yes, they're still lying about it. Because that's what they do.
C: God knows what other shit this miserable bastard will throw out as he leaves.

When the last cellphone in the
Caliphate is destroyed or worn out no one will know how to make another.
Their 8th century is capable of producing fanaticism but probably
couldn't make a ball point pen. Objects in the ISIS universe are
"magical" -- put there by Allah in the possession of the infidel for
holy warriors to plunder and enjoy until the power which inheres in them
gradually fades away.

Surprisingly much of the modern world is not very different. Many people treat
technology like magic even in the West. How does a cell phone work?
Dunno. Where does it come from? The store....If a global catastrophe destroyed all of civilization's works yet spared
these few million they could re-create every object in the world again.
By contrast if only these few millions perished the remaining billions
though untouched could continue only until things broke down. It is
knowledge which sustains civilization. Of course knowledge is also
stored in libraries against catastrophe. Or is it? If universities
began seeing science as old "white man" sorcery they might start purging
it like ISIS does wizardry.
And the result, as Heinlein noted, will be blamed on 'bad luck'.

And if you're not familiar, there's a list of 213 things Skippy is not allowed to do; part of them:The sound of the Phalanx anti-missile defense system going off is not
just a way to alert the crew that the ship is about to sink. Sponge Bob Square Pants is not a proper cadence for marching Not allowed to exchange my M16 for a Pistol, “Because it’ll be more fun.”
Not allowed to Exchange my M16 for a shotgun, “Because all the cool kids have one.”
Not allowed to exchange my M16 for a Sub-Machine Gun.
Ok, I can, but only if I can find one for the commander too.

Also, there's a followon. I particularly likeDo not challenge SERE grads to play hide-and-seek.

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. - C.S. Lewis

Y'all got on this boat for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave. - Capt. Mal

A Rifleman’s Prayer:Oh Lord, I would live my life in freedom, peace and happiness, enjoying the simple pleasures of hearth and home. I would die an old, old man in my own bed, preferably of sexual overexertion.

But if that is not to be, Lord, if monsters such as this should find their way to my little corner of the world on my watch, then help me to sweep those bastards from the ramparts, because doing that is good, and right, and just.

And if in this I should fall, let me be found atop a pile of brass, behind the wall I made of their corpses. Geek with a .45

"He's Black Council,", I said.

"Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered.

I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier."

Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day." Ebenezar McCoy

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition” ― Rudyard Kipling

This deprecation of individual freedom was objectionable to me. I am convinced now, as I was then, that man is an end because he is a child of God. Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as means to the end of the state; but always as an end within himself." Dr. M.L. King Jr.